And the winner was.......

Thank God for the DVR.....

Being able to pause the debate after 45 minutes and catch up some other recorded program....of equal importance....like Ballers on HBO.....allowed me to resume watching the rest of the "experience" later in the evening.

Was there an actual winner?

I'm fairly certain that neither candidate received any type of "crossover" to the other side support.

People who think Trump should be President still think he should be President and most likely anything said in a debate isn't going to change their minds.

The people that I'm curious about are the people that wonder IF he should be President.  Those people probably will decide this election.

A very large percentage of the American public believe America will continue to be America no matter who sits in the Oval Office....and if it's a total disaster then it's one term or maybe even shorter.  In other words those people are not really in fear of someone in the White House causing the United States of America to self destruct........BUT in this election Donald Trump has caught their attention.

HE MIGHT BE THE EGO-MANIAC THAT WOULD LEAD TO A VERY BAD OUTCOME AND THEY ARE WATCHING HIM VERY CLOSELY TO SEE IF ALL THE RUMORS ARE TRUE.

REMEMBER, ONLY 18 MILLION PEOPLE WATCHED HIS TV SHOW.......AND LAST NIGHT WAS THE LARGEST VIEWING NUMBERS EVER FOR A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE....OVER 100 MILLION...SO I HAVE TO ASSUME THAT MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ACTUALLY WATCHED HIM FOR THE FIRST TIME.

THE REPUBLICAN DEBATES GOT 25 MILLION

AND MRS. BILL CLINTON, EVEN WITH ALL THE E-MAIL CHAOS, IS A KNOWN ENTITY AND PEOPLE TUNING IN, PRETTY MUCH KNOW WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO GET WITH HER.

SO.....THE QUESTION TO ASK YOURSELF.....DID DONALD TRUMP LOOK AND ACT LIKE A PERSON THAT WILL STAND ON THE STEPS OF THE CAPITOL BUILDING ON JANUARY 20, 2017 AND GIVE AN INAUGURAL ADDRESS?

I PERSONALLY FIND THAT HARD TO IMAGINE.....

HOW ABOUT YOU?

Therefore I give the first round to HRC.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Most viewed TV Presidential Debate in History

Reagan VS Carter 1980

80 million

There were no TV debates in 1968 and 1972 and 1964.

THAT LAST LINE MIGHT BE THE MOST INTERESTING TIDBIT

WHY?

(my guess for 68 and 72 is because Tricky Dick got his ass handed to him in 60 by JFK and he wanted nothing to do with TV)

And in 64 everyone was still in shock and Johnson

was

a

landslide lock over Barry " Drop The Bomb Again" Goldwater

PREDICTION FOR TONIGHT'S

DEBATE

85 Million

and then I went out into the world and questioned about 20 people in the bank and in the market and I'm raising my number

to

105 million

LET THE GAMES BEGIN

http://mindjazz.blogspot.com/2015_10_01_archive.html

Needs another read

Serious election time

The polls vary according to who is trying to blow smoke up our ass.  

Someone did a poll in Enid, Oklahoma and they thought Hillary Clinton was killed in an e-mail accident while visiting Libya.

One poll in Bangor, Maine didn't get the Donald Trump joke and thought he was making a new TV show.

In Oxford, Mississippi they were pretty sure Bill Clinton was still President and that smoking cigs in BBQ restaurants was actually important for helping improve the flavor of the meat.  Half the people polled learned to smoke pot at Ole Miss.

A poll was taken just outside of El Paso and they thought JFK faked his death just to give Texas a bad name.

At a nursing home in Sarasota,Florida the polls taken indicated that they weren't sure if women were allowed to vote.

A pollster stumbled upon a group outside of Boulder, Colorado and they offered him some of their home grown and he hasn't been heard from since......the group thought the election had taken place in June and that Obama got elected to a third term.

Another pollster was working a small town east of Bakersfield, California and they weren't quite sure what the date was when 9/11 happened.

A poll was taken at MIT and everyone in the physics department was convinced that elections exist only in a parallel universe and even thinking about them was unhealthy.

The pollster who was working the streets of Detroit hasn't reported in since July.  Rumor is that he hooked up with Kid Rock and is now working on the Trump campaign as a hotel site scout.

Polls in the mountains of Arkansas indicated that Bill and Hillary were actually siblings and so what?

Multiple polls were taken in Native American, or First Nation, reservations, or whatever they call the land where they live and the last time a vote was taken Marlin Brando was elected President of the United States.

Every minority pollster working in Chicago was killed with in two days of asking questions.

They tried to take a poll of the maids at one of Donald Trump's hotels but nobody was a citizen.

Pollsters talked to the Marketing team that handles Donald Trumps Brand and they chose not to be interviewed but did say that Mr. Trump running for President was the best branding idea they ever had......and they plan on doing it for George Clooney in 2020 after Trump fires them on 60 Minutes the week after November 8th.

The Clinton Conspiracy Blogs were polled and they simply showed statistics on how the Clinton's had murdered 37 people since 1972.

One polling group went to the Nuclear Waste facility in New Mexico but didn't go through the gates because everything was glowing a very eerie green.

A pollster decided to visit Aleppo but discovered that it was now a land fill.  He thought Aleppo was in Iowa because he used to be a linebacker in the NFL.

They polled Hillary's High School and it was discovered that she was a bit on the shy side until her senior year when she convinced people to stop using her nickname...."Hammerin RodHam."

And then one of the major polling companies interviewed 25 million people and 98% thought Jill Stein owned an Eye-Clinic at UCLA and that Gary Johnson was a running back for the Miami Dolphins.

You do realize there is a valid reason that half the eligible voters in America don't usually vote.

And I don't think it's an IQ dealio....I just think a huge percentage of people in America don't give a flying f**k about anything other than what they are doing.  They like to watch TV after coming home from work and that explains how they even know who Donald Trump is........and the polls say that millions of those non-voters are going to vote this time and that they are going to vote for that funny guy with the toupee who says..."You're Fired." 

Everything about this election makes very little sense....so adding some nonsense just seemed to make perfect sense.

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Get Jill Stein and Gary Johnson in the debates. IMPORTANT

REALLLLLLY IMPORTANT !!!!!!!!

JILL STEIN
and
GARY JOHNSON
Have petitions that need to be signed for them to be included in the Presidential debates.

THIS IS A CHANCE TO ACKNOWLEDGE TWO OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES

DON'T WASTE A SECOND

SIGN THE PETITIONS

http://www.jill2016.com/openthedebatespetition

https://www.johnsonweld.com/debate

You might have to cut and paste and if you don't know how to do that why are you even on a computer.....oh yeah...or a smart phone....BUT OF COURSE WTF AM I TALKING ABOUT WHEN I'M NOT SURE HOW TO LINK THOSE PAGES WITHOUT MAKING YOU COPY AND PASTE.

LIKE FOREST SAID.....STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES.....or something like that.....

Just sign the freakin things!

Green Party platform needs to be read carefully

• ISSUES
 
• PLATFORM

Jill Stein 2016 Platform

Our Power to the People Plan 

Climate Action: Protecting Mother Earth and Humanity

• Enact an emergency Green New Deal to turn the tide on climate change, revive the economy and make wars for oil obsolete. Initiate a WWII-scale national mobilization to halt climate change, the greatest threat to humanity in our history. Create 20 million jobs by transitioning to 100% clean renewable energy by 2030, and investing in public transit, sustainable agriculture, conservation and restoration of critical infrastructure, including ecosystems.
• Implement a Just Transition that empowers those communities and workers most impacted by climate change and the transition to a green economy. Ensure that any worker displaced by the shift away from fossil fuels will receive full income and benefits as they transition to alternative work.
• Enact energy democracy based on public, community and worker ownership of our energy system. Treat energy as a human right.
• Redirect research funds from fossil fuels into renewable energy and conservation.  Build a nationwide smart electricity grid that can pool and store power from a diversity of renewable sources, giving the nation clean, democratically-controlled, energy.
• End destructive energy extraction and associated infrastructure: fracking, tar sands, offshore drilling, oil trains, mountaintop removal, natural gas pipelines, and uranium mines. Halt any investment in fossil fuel infrastructure, including natural gas, and phase out all fossil fuel power plants. Phase out nuclear power and end nuclear subsidies.  End all subsidies for fossil fuels and impose a greenhouse gas fee / tax to charge polluters for the damage they have created.
• Protect our public lands, water supplies, biological diversity, parks, and pollinators. Ban neonicotinoids and other pesticides that threaten the survival of bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.
• Support a strong enforceable global climate treaty that limits global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius and provides just financial compensation to developing countries.
• Label GMOs, and put a moratorium on GMOs and pesticides until they are proven safe.
• Support organic and regenerative agriculture, permaculture, and sustainable forestry.
• Protect the rights of future generations. Adopt the Precautionary Principle. When an activity poses threats of harm to human health or the environment, in the absence of objective scientific consensus that it is safe, precautionary measures should be taken. The proponent of an activity, rather than the public, should bear the burden of proof.
• Invest in clean air, water, food  and soil for everyone. Clean up America.
• Enact stronger environmental justice laws and measures to ensure that low-income and communities of color are not disproportionately impacted by harmful pollution and other negative environmental and health effects.
• Support conversion to sustainable, nontoxic materials and the use of closed-loop, zero waste processes.  

STANDING ROCK and one small question

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/north-dakota-protesters-vow-stop-oil-pipeline-traversing-sioux-land-n644861

http://standingrock.org/history/

Destroying scared burial grounds for any reason seems wrong...but for the transportation of oil makes this story have a very bad vibe.

Like almost evil.....

I suggest we follow this story and try not to repeat horrible atrocities once more to the First Nations of America.

Once again....we need Marlin Brando.

Oh, and by the way......why does China let North Korea have NUKES?

Michael Timothy McAlevey

Reading and Writing and making thoughts expand.

This is my 1,229 "article" on Mind Jazz and the fact that I decided  not to put a th after the number 1,229 slightly irks me.  I've read that it's redundant and unnecessary because how else can 1,229 be read without assuming that it's the 1,229th.

Those of you who do read Mind Jazz from time to time, obviously would not consider me to be anything close to a well respected member of the fourth estate. ( I have other skills that translate to the visual side of creation) but when it comes to writing I do assume that you recognize an ability to summarize issues and from time to time make you snicker or snort a slight spew of acceptance and perhaps even consider that once in awhile I push your thought process in a different direction than where it normally resides....or not.

I have a style that I consistently adhere to 
and I use 
that
style
for emphasis and 
"fun" but mainly
emphasis.

How much fun this generates, within the confines of your brain, can truly only be registered IF you choose to share your thoughts and ideas with me.  Of course with my Aquarius nature....sometimes I get your feedback without you saying a word.  It's amazing how close together the words psychotic and psychic appear in the dictionary.

A few of you actually do let me know outloud from time to time......
and those few seem to be enough to guarantee that I will continue to make Mind Jazz a part of my life until I no longer
can remember how to put the letters together......

In truth we eventually all end up eyxpkqyi.......

Sometimes the letters put themselves together due to the electronic nature of the machine I am using....and what appears, quite often, surprises me.  Similar to talking without thinking.

Back in the early 70's I started using a Smith Corona Electric Typewriter and realized that letters simply started taking shape in formations that seem to make more sense than the non-electric typewriter I had been using.  Tesla had a handle on electricity.....electricity has a handle on me.

Oddly at the same time, my hand written journal entries started to improve and as I sit here explaining my "literary" efforts to you, I can look behind me and count 24 finished journals with 20 more in a case to my right.  The ones to my right are in the 10 x 12 size range while the ones behind me are considerably larger and include art as well as writing.

A few months ago I started printing copies of Mind Jazz "articles" but ran out of ink and decided that printing them would have to wait until my ship arrived.....and judging from the low tide that seems to be part of my f**ked up financial nature that ship  won't be docking anytime soon.  It does traverse back and forth on the horizon so I've got that going for me.

But like many things I do this opening was simply meant to be a diversion from the subject I originally wanted to write about.....
which is one of my favorite subjects
and favorite things to do.......
reading.

Since reading and writing go hand in hand  my brain decided to bring up writing first and then ease you into reading....and reading in a manner that seems to be fading much like the hope for political integrity....of which we currently seem to have less than any time in recent history.

READING WHILE ACTUALLY HOLDING A BOOK

Have I lost you?

Is your Kindle or e-reader sitting within five feet of you and demanding that you stop following what this nut is saying about 
actual books made with paper 
and tucked inside a 
cover.

I love the physicality of  books and the reading part travels well beyond the term love.....it's more of a lifeline.

There are certain observations that I would like to share regarding contemporary styles and the actual ink-spillers who create the letters which allow books to become reality.

FICTION vs NON-FICTION
Contemporary vs Classical

Except for very rare occasions I have always preferred non-fiction because of the imagination needed to create....but that's just me.

Imagined dialogue by Elmore Leonard has always captivated me.

The literary talent of James Lee Burke simply has no peers in contemporary non-fiction literature.

Dean Koontz has developed into one of the best story tellers of our time and his place in history will only rise up the ladder of greatness.

For fun reading anything Clive Cussler  is associated with is a guaranteed positive experience...especially the Issac Bell series.

Every book written by James A. Michener is a must read for both historical and story telling excellence.

SIDE BAR

The book I just finished, which motivated this "article" is called 
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikery by Gabrielle Zevin.
Highly recommended reading if you love books and still enjoy visiting bookstores.

Please rest assured that classic fictional writers should be visited at least once or twice a year and for me to list those writers would take way too much time......but if you haven't read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings then you need to start right there.  The art of telling a story from imagination has never been better presented and J.R. Tolkien sits alone when it comes to defining fantasy.  It helps if you take an hallucinogenic and climb a mountain or two during the reading or just after finishing.
The more remote...the better.

And of course Rudyard Kipling, both stories and poems, should be required reading...PERIOD.
Charles Dickens to understand a time period and Edgar Allen Poe just to understand clouds in the mind.

By the way I had to listen to David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest instead of reading it just because.......and is it a great book?  My opinion is that it is a PIECE OF WORK.   Make up your own mind about what that means. It's funny how we just accept his suicide if we've experienced that book.

I would like to tell you that I've read James Joyce novels cover to cover but then I would be lying like everyone else on the planet.

After all is said and done.....If one were making a list of required reading for a 15 year old......I think my list would first start with everything Michener wrote.  With his genius for historical research and wonderful story telling reading would simply become part of that person's nature.

I've said it before and I'll say it one more time.......the one truth I've fully accepted regarding human beings is.....we love to tell a story......and then some of us love to read those stories and we do it to learn more about the human experience....so we can attempt to write about it in a manner that sometimes makes sense, or at the very least makes the thought process.......expand.

I've been trying for thought expansion for as long as I can remember.

Only you can tell if I'm achieving my goal.

 End of Part one on Reading and Writing......

Michael Timothy McAlevey